Posts filed under 'First Round'
First Round Office Hours in Cambridge
Make sure to mark July 6th, 2009 on your calendar if you are a viable start-up and want a chance to speak with one of the premier web investment firms.
First Round Capital is holding an Office Hours session in Cambridge at Toscanini’s Ice Cream in Central Square.
If you are not familiar with First Round Capital, you should be. They are well known as one of the most savvy and successful early stage investors with a team that has earned their cred in the trenches as entrepreneurs themselves. Their current portfolio includes Mint.com, Xobni, Get Satisfaction as well as a few Boston area start-ups.
If you don’t have a warm introduction to First Round through your network, this is the next best thing. Take advantage of their open invitation to introduce yourself and your company.
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Add comment June 30, 2009
New Mass Challenge announced by Gov Patrick
Massachusetts has just announced a initiative to fund start up activities here in our state. $ 25 million dollars will be allocated to catalyze growth and stimulate innovation.
Check it out http://masschallenge.org/
Add comment June 10, 2009
Cadio
Genotrope Record: Cadio Currently Hiring
Funding Status: Seed Round
Investors: MIT
Founders or Execs past companies: MIT PHD Students
Industry: Wireless/Mobile Analytics
Offering Description: Cadio analyzes GPS data from mobile phones to better understand consumer interests and habits. Using a privacy-aware opt-in model, Cadio’s algorithms create Tag Clouds for Consumers™ to generate brand-relevant inferences about where people go and what they do. Cadio offers market research services and enables lifestyle-relevant advertising.
Add comment May 6, 2009
Tikatok
Genotrope Record: Tikatok
Funding Status: Seed Funding
Investors: Launchpad, Boston Harbor Angels, Golden Seeds
Founders or Execs past companies: Zoomix, uTok
Industry: Consumer Web, Childrens online publishing
Offering Description: Tikatok is a free creative community for kids under 13 where they can write, illustrate, and share their original stories, and have them printed out into real hardcover and paperback books. It was developed by two mothers to encourage the imagination and creativity of their children and children everywhere
Add comment April 15, 2009
The Cloud Crowd
The natural next phase after storage, virtualization and data appliances would be Cloud product and services.
Building on the strong base we have here in the Boston area, there is a new crop of start-ups creating the next products and services for the “Cloud”
The talent pool is pretty robust, with major companies such as Netezza, EMC, VMWare, Hitachi, Iron Mountain and Sun to tap and founders from the last group of startups Like Archivas, Pirus, Equallogic, Acopia, Virtual Computer to start building the next wave of companies.
Here is a quick list of start-up Cloud companies:
When you look at the profiles, you will notice the networks overlap quite a bit from the last group of successful storage companies. It will be interesting to watch these companies progress over the next years.
Please let me know the ones I missed and I will add to the list.
1 comment March 31, 2009
Spark Capital has Launched Start@Spark
This is most excellent news. Another Seed Capital program; Start@Spark has been introduced for Boston companies.
Spark Capital may be the most aggressive web oriented investor in the Boston area, evidenced by their recent investment in Twitter.
Sadly, to date, only one of their web investments 8D World are from the Boston area. This is probably not through lack of trying as they are more visible here than most VC’s, with Bijan Sabet hosting Open Coffee and participating in the TechStars Boston program.
A look at their portfolio will tell you that they are media oriented which might mean that most of the investments end up in NYC.
This is a great opportunity for early stage web companies here in theHub. I hope to see some great things come from this program and hopefully Boston can win a few slots against the more media oriented NYC market.
PostScript: It may turn out that Y Combinator vacating Boston will turn in to a net positive. First of all YC companies were encouraged to re locate to Silicon Valley after their Cambridge stay had ended and the majority of them did so. Only a few have stayed in the Boston area to contribute to the start-up community here, and we are glad they did.
Plus, Paul Graham continues to deliver kicks in the pants to the Boston start-up culture, particularly the VC’s by commenting on the huge difference between the 1 and number 2 start-up markets.
The fact will probably not be acknowledged, but the vacuum left by Y Combinator and some prodding by their founder and respected seed investor may have given Boston Web start-ups a boost after all.
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Add comment March 25, 2009
Nasuni
Genotrope Record: Nasuni
Funding Status: Series A
Investors: Sigma, North Bridge
Founders or Execs past companies: Archivas
Industry: Storage
Offering Description: Storage as a Service
Add comment March 24, 2009
Bluefin Lab
Genotrope Record: Bluefin Lab
Funding Status: Seed
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: Another Andy Palmer mentored company. MIT
Industry: Consumer Web, Video Search
Offering Description: cutting edge video search technology applied to the exciting world of consumer media.
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Add comment March 24, 2009
Kayanta
Genotrope Record: Kayanta
Funding Status: Bootstrapped
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: Revivio, Rock Paper Scissors
Industry: Consumer Web
Offering Description: Personalized Search. Helps you find recreational activities based upon personalized criteria.
Add comment March 19, 2009
Shotput Ventures: new startup accelerator in Atlanta
Shotput Ventures of Atlanta has recently launched with their first session this summer. Using the by now familiar formula of $5,000 per team plus $5,000 per founder in exchange for 5% – 10% of equity on entrepreneur friendly terms.
The team is a strong group of successful entrepreneurs with backgrounds in web and software technology. Certainly a viable candidate when you are applying to the list of startup accelerators built on the mold of Y Combinator. If they have a winter program, they will be even more attractive to the snow bound Boston teams.
The un-answered question is who will be the audience for “demo day”? Will Ron Conway or Sequoia be there? Ultimately the test is how many successful companies will be spawned by the program.
They are off to a good start and we look forward to seeing the companies that spring forth under the guidance of Shotput Ventures.
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Add comment March 5, 2009
